The Catholic World

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 231

The Catholic World

CANADA— Catholic Schools According to ilio Neio World of Chicago, the Canadian Government Commission on Scholarship at Ottawa, Canadaj Las just issued orders advancing the "salaries of the Christian Brothers to £50 a year," each. Brother Director" to receive £120. The Grey Nuns, who have been receiving £40 a year, will receive £45, and next yoar £50. As -a result of the Commission's decision many hundreds of pounds extra will go to the Catholic schools of -Canada next year CHlNA— Jesuit Missions Afc the present time the largest church" in China is being "built at Zikawei; which is close to Shanghai ,the largest.. Chinese commercial town, on the "mouth of the Yang-tse-" - kiarig flowing into the. East China Sea. The Cathedral is ' 240 feet long, and 130 feet broad, with two steeples each i 180 feet high. The fabrics of the church alone is to cost " £30,000, and besides that there arc all the decorations and the fittings for the interior. Zikawei is the headquarters of the Jesuit mission in China, and has a large seminary, a vast library, an observatory, which has been of , great service to navigation; it also possesses a large hospital, a children's asylum, a printing office, and a book-binding^ establishment. Out of about 1000 Jesuit missionaries who' are working in Asia, one-third of them' are in China. In the five continents there are about 4000 Jesuits hard at work on the mission fields. , . ENGLAND — A Franciscan Monastery A new Franciscan Capuchin monastery is to be erected""' at Penmaenmawr, the whole cost of the land and erection ~- of which is to be defrayed by a local lady. ' The new - monastery will be the second belonging to the Capuchin Order in North Wales, the other being tho great institution at Pantasaph, near Holy well, founded mainly through the instrumentality of the late Earl of Denbigh. A Pontifical Club As an outcome of the recent Eucharistic Congress (says the Pull Mall Gazette), the West End of" London is about; to receive an increase in tho number of its social institiv-" tions by the establishment- of a 'Pontifical Club.' The' new club is to be devoted to tho use of the numerous prealtes, domestic chamberlains,- and~other functionaries osr the Vatican Court who, are resident in this country.' An" inaugural meeting has been held, at which ,a committee has been elected composed of the Archbishop of Westminster, and other prominent Catholics. An Appointment The Holy Father has been pleased to appoint Monsignor Joseph Butt to the vice-rectorship of tho Collogio Beda, which has become vacant on the appointment of Monsi<mor Prior as auditor of the" Rota. - FRANCE— Death of a Cardinal - f The death is reported of Cardinal Lecot, Archbishop'" of Bordeaux, who passed away at Chambory on his way back from Rome. His ■ Eminence, who was sixty-eight years of age, succeeded Cardinal Guibert in the Archbishop-" ric of Bordeaux. He was one of. the first French prelate's ' who adopted the policy of rallying to the Republic, recoin^ mended by Leo XIII. After the passing of the Separation ±HJI lie at first permitted the formation of an associationin conformity with the new law, but afterwards renounced' that policy on learning the wish of the Holy Father. French Missionaries 7- l i- is s v om , etllin g Peculiarly strange (remarks the Catholic Times} that a nation such as Franco which has scut" to tho missionary field so ma W who have been ready tb~ make every sacrifice, even that of life itself, for the oxton- " sioii of Christ's Empire over men should have drifted into" ' unbelief. No doubt, the sacrifices of the .French missionaries will bear fruit in God's good" time. That there art?"' no missionaries more heroic, none more willing to faco risks and suffering, none more patient in bearing up against want and hardship cannot be disputed. When MonsignoiTouchet Bishop of Orleans, was expressing the gratitudo of French Catholics to the Pope for the promulgation of the decree for the beatification of Joan of Arc, he also-lhanked ifV^ £"£■ ln p the case V f thirty-five, other servants of God— the Yen Francesco de Capillas, a Spanish Domimcan, proto-martyr of China, Stephen Theodore CueZfc • Metropolitan Bishop Peter Neel, Peter Francis £ n Theophane Venard, Missionaries Apostolic," and twentvl nine companions, natives, who died for the Faith in Cochin-China, Ton-Chm and China, and the Venerable John Eudes, .founder of the Congregation of Jesus and '

Mary and the Order of the B.V.M. of Charity. Of all } e !t irt y: flve Be *ti every one with the single exception . oi tne bpamsh Dominican was. a Frenchman." With pride did the Bishop 6f Orleans mention the:-fact, and, it i 8i 8 a tooling the manifestation of which was amply justified. ROME— The Holy Father's Thanks

Tho Duchess of Norfolk, Lady Anne Kerr, Miss Fraser ' (sister of Lord Lovat), and Lady Esmonde have- each been presented by the Holy Father with "his photograph accompanied by an autograph letter, in which he conveys his tlianks through these ladies to the Catholic women of England Scotland, and Ireland for their prosents on the occasion of his Jubilee. In addition the" Pope has given each a gold medal. ■ ... Proposed Knighthood -: Mr. Daniel Slattery, of Melbourne (writes the Rome correspondent of the Gatlwlic Times), is sojourning in with his wife and niece. Mr. Slattery is known as one of tho loading Catholics of Melbourne and Victoria - • . ls fresident-General of the St. Vincent de Paul' Society of Victoria; and though ho extends his hand— and - that not an empty one— to every good work, his name docs not often come before tho public. Hence if is cliarace£% ! ma " tLat wLon!s Sfe Grace the . Archbishop of Melbourne, during his recent, visit to Rome, expressed a desire to show his recognition" of", Mr. Slattery 's services by obtaining the Pontifical Order .of .the.'Kmghthood of St Gregory for him, he refused^tlie • honor;, whilst expressing Ins, gratitude- for the Archbishop's desire to 'obtain it I -liaveJearncd- from the Rector of. the Irish College - that tho petition had- actually been drawn, up for presentation to the Holy lather when Mr. Slattory was,' made aware of ib. • When- he was informed .of what :itj;had. bedn proposed to -<lo m his regard, ho .asked to^bo from assenting. He suggested the;.name of anothor Melbburne gentleman an honored name both in Australia and Ireland, as that of one whom dignities would much bettor become. And thus an' Jionor which might have gone to himself and another goes to mo other only. UNITED STATES— A Year's Converts

, r Y^y .Roy. Roy - A - P- Doyle, C.S.P., Rector of the Apostolic Mission Hoxise at Washington, U.S.A., in a recent address at Chicago, stated that the recorded number cf conversions for the United States in 1906 totalled 25,056. Mr. Carnegie's Gift --Mr. Andrew Carnegie lias donated the sum of £2500 to the work of rebuilding St. Joseph's College, Covington, La., in charge of the Benedictine, Fathers. The abbey and college were destroyed by fire in November, 1907 and are now in process of reconstruction.' The donation -of Mr Carnegie represents half the cost of the college wing. When completed the institution will alsq include a diocesan seminary, the whole to cost £25,000: ' ' -